BLM feedback.

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I think with the changes they made it’s becoming increasingly obvious they don’t really know how to marry the idea of a turret caster to the modern DDR fight design anymore

EW BLM is a very good iteration of the job specifically because it allowed a lot of movement with minimal potency loss as near limitless access to free paradox allowed for so many short line optimisations when you needed movement without spending xeno. In their haste to remove non standard play with flare star they didn’t seem to account for the fact that BLM’s long unwieldy fire phases just simply don’t work in the modern encounter design and that’s what paradox and thunder procs were designed to compensate for.

You can see this with the comparison to PCT, in a standard 10 minute fight PCT casts 92% as much as BLM (total time casting not actual cast number because that stat would bias PCT as it has weave slots in its casts) (assuming you don’t overcap anything on either job but excluding holy in white) but PCT feels way more mobile because it can functionally use its movement tools whenever it wants because there is so few hard and fast rules to organising them

BLM is looking more and more slated for a rework going forward because I simply don’t think they know how to deal with the job anymore

Mao agrees. Devs doublings down on high mobility fights and nots know how to deal with turrets-style caster likes BLMs. Is why Mao suspectings Devs made Picto so OP. Mao thinkings Devs hoping that many BLMs would switch to Picto and that would reduce number of peoples whats would be complainings about changes to BLMs. To be honest, this all just speculations on Mao part. Mao really does nots understand why Devs made changes to BLMs in first place. EW BLMs play-style ables to handle fights needing mobility. Now Devs having to go backs and add kludge fix after kludge fix to make BLMs palatable. All so that thems won't has to revert backs to EW BLMs and in doing so, admit that thems made mistake. Flare Star and some other improvements could has easily been bolteds on to EW BLMs with little or no fuss buts....NOPES, can't has thats! Devs will NEVER admit to makings mistake.